Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
The site is currently in beta, but still really cool for power searchers. It apparently only works in MSIE right now (possibly Mozilla). From the site: “This page contains all of the options (and then some) available from the major international crawler-based search engines, providing a common interface.” Found this link via ResearchBuzz.
The site is also loaded with other great tools like the Web Page Information Viewer, and the Google Ultimate Interface..
Granted, you could easily cheat this quiz, but why would you? Is it a GIF or a JPEG?
A very interesting story on a site I can’t say that I’ve ever been to before: The Center for Public Integrity. The headline: “Phone fund for schools, libraries riddled with fraud.” Apparently the Universal Service Fund is supposed to be used to help schools and libraries get online. Every year, $2.25 billion go into that program. But more and more, a good chunk of that money is lining the pockets of executives and not being put back into schools or libraries. Let’s see…$2.25 billion divided by 50-states equals $50 million. Put that into the general school funding for the states. It won’t entirely fund schools, but it will certainly help.
Michel has a small chest. Michel wants a larger chest. Michel can not afford the surgery. Michel is now asking for help. Weird. The site is safe for work, so don’t worry folks.
Gotta love a fun little lunch-time waste of time: Boggle.
Find out here. Any bets on how long until Rumsfeld asks to shut down the site?
…but look at the 17″ LCD on this portable bad-boy, and I’m almost wishing I had the cash. Almost.
According to this Boston Globe story, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be searched, whites are more likely than any other racial group to face drug charges following a search – supporting a claim by minorities that they are searched with less reason. How did they research this? Nearly two years after the state began collecting information on traffic citations to measure possible racial profiling by police, the Boston Globe analyzed more than 750,000 tickets, from every police department in the state.
What gets me is why haven’t school districts done this already? According to the story at the link:
The belt-tightening move could save nearly $100,000. Starting immediately, temperatures in the schools will now be set at 70 degrees during the day and 60 degrees at night. The lights will also be turned off in certain areas of school buildings when they’re not being used.
Crimeny, folks. This is something you should have been doing FOR YEARS, not when there is a budget crunch. This is the kind of horribly obvious stuff that should be done, and is probably part of the reason everybody is in a budget crunch right now: poor spending. I’m all for giving money to schools and other publicly-funded operations, but not the unneccessary spending stops. While you guys are turning off the lights, set it up so that all your computer monitors turn themselves off instead of running a stupid screen saver, and all computer go into low-power mode when not in use. Get rid of half the printers in the building (not everybody needs a printer on their desk) and then *gasp* you’ll be saving a bunch of money. Imagine that. Now if this was done YEARS ago (like it should have been), we wouldn’t have to hear stories about programs being cut and folks being laid off (at least not as many). There are a thousand ways that costs can be cut but your employees — your most valuable asset — should be at the bottom of that list.
Oh no, they might lose about 0% of their business. Full Story. While PETA, generally, annoys the heck out of me, they have produced some pretty dang funny/odd/interesting commercials (most of which were banned from TV, though I’ve seen worse stuff on cable).